It seems no matter where you look, “hockey stick” shapes pop out of data related to climate. Today, the most extraordinary day in climate science seen in quite some time, was no exception.
And, the day is not over. But honestly I’m too tired to continue. Thus I’m going to present the dataset gleaned today in raw form, but without the final endpoint. There’s no smoothing nor splicing of dissimilar datasets, but granted it is not a complete dataset. I’ll have complete data tomorrow.
Readers will recognize that even though the endpoint has not been established, the conclusion from the graph is clear. We are living in times of extraordinary data, never before seen. It’s accelerating, and worse than we thought.
UPDATE: the final number at midnight Nov 20th, 2009 was 187,988 hits.
Sometimes, there is irony.
In other news, WUWT’s post on the CRU data hack was the number one post on WordPress today, beating out CNN, People magazine, and other well known media outlet posts.
I wish to offer my sincerest thanks to the WUWT moderation team. Thanks also to readers who spread the word and participated in the largest ever thread.
Two thumbs up for Anthony and the Mods!
(BTW, that always sounds like a Motown group to me. :o))
But I believe Alan the Brit (03:02:18) has it pegged.
“[…] investigation will take place, all data will sub-judice, & therefore illegal to view or discuss, after an 18 month investigation, […] lawyers will counter & demand at least 6 months for trial preparation, a trial date will be set for 9 months later, then a lengthy drawn out trial will be undertaken, say 3 months […] lawyers move for a mis-trial, then a new date is set, another 6 months goes by. […] Perhaps I am too old & cynical? Thank goodness for the internet!”
And I’m not really very sure there will ever be a trial in the UK or a congressional inquiry in the US. This will all get stonewalled and then swept under the carpet and a few people might take an early retirement… that’s all.
BUT the “consensus” has now been shown for what it really is and the various journals might just open up their pages a bit more. So I heartily second Alan’s “Thank goodness for the internet!”
Now I think I’ll just go over and sit in the cynics corner with Alan tB.
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P.S. I didn’t catch a reaction from anna V. Did she weigh in?
Geoffrey Lean at the Telegraph is ignoring this. (Well now, there’s a surprise. Probably hasn’t been told what to think yet!)
His piece today is that the floods in Cumbria are “proof” of global warming. He’s not getting an easy ride, I’m pleased to say.
Let’s just hope that it is not just the same five people hitting the link again and again….
From: Jonathan Overpeck To: Stefan Rahmstorf Subject: Re: urgent help re Augusto Mangini Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 09:35:51 -0600 Cc: Valerie Masson-Delmotte , Eystein Jansen , Keith Briffa
Hi Stefan – Valerie was the lead on the Holocene section, so I’ll cc her. I agree that your approach is the smart one – it’s easy to show proxy records (e.g., speleothems) from a few sites that suggest greater warmth than present at times in the past, but our assessment was that there wasn’t a period of GLOBAL warmth comparable to present. We used the term likely, however, since there still is a good deal of work to do on this topic – we need a better global network of sites.
I’ve decided to save the casually curious from the need to download 61MB of stuff, unzip etc. by sticking the emails (with addresses futzed and some phone numbers ditto) on my webserver along with a fairly basic search engine.
Now anyone can search for “M&M” or “FOI” and see everything that shows up – no need to rely on journalists or bloggers potentially selectively quoting emails. Also if you see a quote on a page with a somewhat cryptic reference such as “1103647149” or “1103647149.txt” you can paste the numbers in to the “Open” box and get the file displayed for you.
The tool is here
http://www.di2.nu/foia/foia.pl
Well if being a party to a criminal computer break-in is what it takes to get people to read this blog, go for it!
“Dig into your pockets, and dig deep. Let’s keep this ball rolling.” Ralph
Indeed! But deep is not needed if many heed.
Next month for me. I is broke this one.
Thanks for the reminder.
Thanks for hard work Anthony. It is blogs like this and CA that have the pressure on for truth, no matter what that is that has driven this. Be it a leaker or hacker it was the quest for truth that has won. The “Fat Lady” isn’t singing yet, but I think I can hear her warming up. Thanks to all truth seekers, yes that’s all of you here at WUWT!
Anthony Watts is both brilliant and a class act.
The CRUtape letters and Meltdown Mann will be a game changer.
P Gosselin (01:18:08) :
Ditto!!
I hope this all leads to corrective action at the state, legal and media levels.
The entire world has been defrauded. THERE HAS TO BE COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGES.
When I think about all
1. The “green taxes” I’ve paid,
2. The costly regluations that had to be dealt with
3. The tax money paid to fund this fraud
4. The tax money paid forall these bogus studies
5. The taxes paid to fund the IPCC
6. those damn expensive climate conferences
7. the political time devoted to a non-problem
8. all the scientists who had their careers ruined
9. all those green subsidies for renewables
10. all the kids in hunger because of biofuels
and so on,
It’s time that these people be investigated, indicted and juste meeted out.
Yes, I think if we all assembled in a class action suit, we could finally get this ball rolling.
Reconcilliation? No way!
Those fraudsters can thank their lucky stars they aren’t living in the Old West days.
I’m gonna bring this up with a lawyer I know and see what avenues are possible. They took, correction, THEY STOLE, enough of my money.
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Good idea P Gosselin,
May I suggest a CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT against all those involved in this fraud, LAUNCHED IN THE USA.
I woud also suggest that there is ample cause for criminal charges – these fraudsters make the Bernie Madoff’s of this world look like rank amateurs.
Thisis no longer a matter for scientific debate.
It is now time for civil and criminal prosecution.
Regards, Allan
I don’t want to comment on the story rather on the main stream media reaction. I have been following this story since Thursday PM and I periodically checked both the NY Times and the Washington Post to see even a report of the data theft. Nothing until after 6 PM on Friday. The mainstream media don’t like to see their carefully crafted tapestry torn apart. They were litterally so frozen in their tracks they could publish NOTHING, even in electronic format, for 24 hours on a story that has implications, allegedly, for the future of the planet and a meeting that will save the planet from inevitable destrcution. Anthony, my hat is off to you and the other bloggers who broke this story. We are witnessing a revolution in real journalism while the traditional newspapers sat on their thumbs and became more irrelavant.
Its the ultimate in whistle blowing and could possibly spare BILLIONS of our grand children from being snagged in the drift net of the Global Warming industrial machine, I’ll sit on that jury right now. Taxation is generational theft, detaining terrorists is done so without their being read Miranda and scientists went the way of religion falsifying their message in order to scare the peasantry into submission before their altar of Global Warming but all was done for the “common goody goodness” so that makes them one and all “the right thing to do”. Get over the “how they were caught” and back to the shining fact that science, the pursuit of ultimate truths, was being fabricated. Any falsification in scientific method is abomination and no amount of spin can “pretty up” that ugly truth.
My grandchildren thank whomever is the whistle blower/hacker and we sincerely hope you take solstice in your part of saving the society of man billions better spent elsewhere. Imagine 100 billion spent on bioengineering crops for harsh climates or the same spent on aids research.
As for whatsupwiththat readership, everyone who is a regular reader knew why to frequent this blog and no so do a lot more folks. I’m not surprised as there had to be at least a few hundred thousand curious minds unaffected by Jabba the Gore’s apocalyptic fantasies.
Fun to be part of it. I got my own hockey stick out of it. Now, if I could just use it to bash (insert Senator’s name here) soundly about the head and shoulders, we might get somewhere.
“Nigel Brereton (01:59:09) :
RE J.Hansford (23:48:09)
In the end, it is the science that wins.
Unfortunately the focus in the mainstream press at the moment is on the criminal act of hacking not the criminal act of falsifying data.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8370282.stm”
Hopefully at least one paper here in the UK will pick up the case and run with it. Do not forget that The Telegraph exposed the expense scandal of Westminster MPs and the public prosecution service decided it was not in the public interest to prosecute the individual who sold the files to The Telegraph. This is definitely in the public interest and I would assume that once it is exposed the prosecution service will not launch a prosecution in this country if the files are genuine and fraud has been committed. There was also the case of the Home Office suppression of information where it was not considered in the public interest to prosecute the “leaker” or the Conservative “shadow Home Secretary” who used the information.
Well done Anthony! Days like this really show the old-world media for what it is… a dinosaur.
I am tempted to feel sorry for the likes of the BBC and the Guardian who still try to control the agenda (believing it is their birthright to do so) – and left in the tail-lights of sites like WUWT… looking weak, timid and hopelessly out of touch with the public’s intelligence and need for ‘robust’ reporting.
It amazes me when they report that large majorities of the public (with a healthy curiosity and internet access) are sceptical of AGW… and yet they STILL can’t acknowledge why that is.
The Guardian is up to its eyeballs in debt. And it’s common-knowledge that the BBC’s sprawling, tax-funded, empire (and left-wing bias it no long bothers to disguise) is due a fundamental dismantling come the next government.
(A telling fact can be gleaned from today’s Telegraph home-page… Not a single whisper about the scandalous ‘CRUgate’ bombshell – yet scroll down to newspaper’s list of “Most Viewed” pages… and James Delingpole’s blog entry on the subject is Number 1)
With the growing popularity and vitality of internet sites like WUWT and an ever-present appetite for REAL news from the public… who is going to miss these lumbering old-world hypocrites?
I am a layman who has been interested in the topic of global warming for many years now. I have concluded that man made global warming is hogwash, but very dangerous hogwash. I would wish to thank the manager of this site, and its contributors for doing very important work. Please keep at it. The truth will come out. So, if no one has ever said thank you, may I do so now. THANK YOU! Best regards, Jim
Very cool graph, sir. Very, very cool. Kinda like the climate.
Congratulations Anthony!
I’m waiting for the AGW’ers to disclose that these were deliberate fakes designed to help an internal inquiry ferret out a leak. Of course, they’ll have to have a public hanging to make it stick…or should that be hockey stick?
Note that the above hockey stick is correlated to cumulative CO2. So CO2 causes WUWT hits.
Congratulations!
It has been educational to be with you from near the beginning. I predict greater success in the future…
Yahoo Has an article from Investors Business Daily: The Day Global Warming Stood Still
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20091120/bs_ibd_ibd/20091120issues01
When Gorebull Warmists complain about the data being illegally hacked remind them of this little incident and how Mann and others supported the “activists” who damaged the power plant.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/cleared-jury-decides-that-threat-of-global-warming-justifies-breaking-the-law-925561.html
I think I’ll Google about and see if Jones had any comments on the occasion.
“Execute them!” — The King from “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”
I took up a suggestion above and donated $20 to WUWT. Not so long ago I did the same for Climatechange.org in recognition of S. McIntyre’s sterling work. I would encourage fellow readers and contributors to do the same. A lot of small contributions will all add up to allow Messrs Watts & McIntyre to continue their excellent work to expose non scientific behaviour in the scientific community associated with climate change research.
I’m so confused. Are these real site visits, or proxy reconstruction visits?